All Productivity articles – Page 32
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NewsNHS productivity unit role revealed
The NHS productivity unit will prepare the health service for the economic downturn with an initial budget of just £350,000.
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HSJ KnowledgePast, present and future productivity in the NHS
Higher performance bought with heavy investment in the NHS is in jeopardy from arbitrary cost cutting in the name of efficiency. Andrew Street reports
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NewsNHS productivity is rising
NHS productivity has improved, with the growth in the quality and volume of treatment now exceeding the increase in NHS funding.
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Blogs
NHS news blog: NHS productivity on the rise
NHS productivity has improved, with the growth in the quality and volume of treatment now exceeding the increase in NHS funding.Figures due to be published by the Office for National Statistics later this month will show that between 2003-04 to 2007-08 productivity growth was at worst static and at best ...
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Budget 2009: Improve NHS productivity or cut services - King's Fund
The NHS will face “significant cuts in its services” from 2011 unless it can become more productive, the King’s Fund said in response to today’s Budget.
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SHA chief Margaret Edwards to lead productivity unit
Margaret Edwards, the chief executive of Yorkshire and the Humber strategic health authority, has left to head up a new national NHS productivity unit.She has agreed to lead the unit, set up by NHS chief executive David Nicholson and based in NHS London, and will start as national director of ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Better NHS training, improved NHS productivity
Effective training can have far-reaching benefits, as an initiative at one trust has demonstrated
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HSJ Knowledge
Increasing productivity in nursing
In a programme that pre-empted the Productive Ward initiative by a year, Ipswich Hospital trust improved its nursing services by changing the ward sister role
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS productivity shown up in a clearer light
A key feature of the NHS Better Care, Better Value indicators published by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement is the ‘productivity opportunity’ figure for each PCT and acute provider.
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News
Managers to compare consultants' productivity
The Department of Health is sending data to hospital trusts that will allow them to measure consultants' activity against national rates.
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News
Statistics show 10-year drop in NHS productivity
Productivity in the NHS has fallen by an average of 1 per cent a year over the past 10 years, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics.The Conservatives seized on the data, claiming it was evidence NHS cash had been 'squandered' by the Labour government.
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News
Consultants' contract offers no productivity gains, say MPs
There have been 'no measurable improvements' in productivity as a result of the 2003 NHS contract for consultants, MPs have concluded.
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News
Payment by results and productivity
Noel Plumridge is perplexed by the dilemma of paying for payment by results-induced productivity within a closed, cash-limited system (HSJ, 22 February). I.thought the answer to that was price. As the volumes go up so unit prices go down.
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News
Trusts face 15 public productivity rankings
All acute and primary care trusts are to have their performance publicly ranked against 15 efficiency indicators from this summer.
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Datamonitor: steady progress for acute productivity
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has published the Q3 2006-07 Better Care, Better Value indicators. As the indicators have been published for the first time on the basis of the 152 new primary care trusts (previous quarters reported on the 303 PCTs that existed until Q2 end) the ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Helen Bevan on the push for productivity
'Over the past 10 years, we have learned a great deal about applying the principles of modern operations management to healthcare delivery'
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News
Doctor productivity rates to be given to trusts
DoH will reveal how much NHS work individual consultants do
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News
Reid hits back after fiigures point to fall in productivity
Published: 21/10/2004, Volume II4, No. 5928 Page 4 5
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Activity rankings will expose consultants' productivity
Published: 19/12/2002, Volume II2, No. 5836 Page 4 5